Ella finds a music box after ballet class and is transported to the world of Princess Aurora where she helps save the princess from a spell.

"Ella's kindly ballet teacher, Madame Rosa, introduces the children to A Midsummer night's dream by Felix Mendelssohn. Ella is so inspired that she stays behind after class is over for just one more fairy dance . . .and finds herself transported into the story! . . . A brief passage at the back of the book tells the story of William Shakespeare's beloved comedy and includes some interesting facts about Felix Mendelssohn's enchanting music."--Book...

Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, must re-evaluate her life after doctors declare her knee unfit for dancing. At the behest of her mother, Emma returns home to Sydney, where she discovers her affluent and loving grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an inheritance: Wildflower Hill, an old sheep farm in Tasmania. When Emma settles in temporarily to clean out Wildflower Hill and sell it, she discovers a photo of her grandmother...

Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she'll never soar again.